Machine Learning interspecific identification of mouse first lower molars (genus Mus Linnaeus, 1758) and application to fossil remains from the Estrecho Cave (Spain)

A Moclan, ÁC Domínguez-García, E Stoetzel… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the first steps to address palaeontological studies is the taxonomic identification of
fossils according to their morphology. Geometric Morphometric techniques together with …

The long and winding road: identifying pig domestication through molar size and shape

A Evin, T Cucchi, A Cardini, US Vidarsdottir… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The ability to document the effects of domestication from archaeological remains of animals
and plants is essential for reconstructing the history of one of the most important transitions …

Commensal rats and humans: integrating rodent phylogeography and zooarchaeology to highlight connections between human societies

EE Puckett, D Orton, J Munshi‐South - Bioessays, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogeography and zooarchaeology are largely separate disciplines, yet each interrogates
relationships between humans and commensal species. Knowledge gained about human …

Early domestication and farming: what should we know or do for a better understanding?

JD Vigne - Anthropozoologica, 2015 - BioOne
This paper aims to identify a series of conceptual, strategic and technological challenges
facing archaeozoology (and archaeobotany) in order to better understand when, where, how …

Overcoming the spurious groups problem in between-group PCA

J Thioulouse, S Renaud, AB Dufour, S Dray - Evolutionary Biology, 2021 - Springer
Several papers have recently raised the occurrence of some problems with between-group
Principal Component Analysis (bgPCA). This method inflates the differences between the …

Advances in morphometrics in archaeobotany

M Portillo, TB Ball, M Wallace, C Murphy… - Environmental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Morphometric analysis offers an alternative or augmentation to traditional archaeobotanical
methods to address differences within and between plant species and their remains, refining …

Phylogeny and adaptation shape the teeth of insular mice

R Ledevin, P Chevret, G Ganem… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
By accompanying human travels since prehistorical times, the house mouse dispersed
widely throughout the world, and colonized many islands. The origin of the travellers …

Archaeophenomics of ancient domestic plants and animals using geometric morphometrics: a review

A Evin, L Bouby, V Bonhomme… - Peer Community …, 2022 - peercommunityjournal.org
Geometric morphometrics revolutionized domestication studies through the precise quanti
cation of the phenotype of ancient plant and animal remains. Geometric morphometrics …

Molar wear in house mice: insight into diet preferences at an ecological timescale?

S Renaud, R Ledevin, AB Dufour… - Biological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In molars without permanent eruption, wear deeply modifies the geometry of the crown. To
test for a signature of diet on wear dynamics, the molar geometry was compared between …

Of mice and the 'Age of Discovery': the complex history of colonization of the Azorean archipelago by the house mouse (Mus musculus) as revealed by mitochondrial …

SI Gabriel, ML Mathias, JB Searle - Journal of evolutionary …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Humans have introduced many species onto remote oceanic islands. The house mouse
(Mus musculus) is a human commensal and has consequently been transported to oceanic …